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May Day: Makinde Commends Oyo Labour Unions for Adding Value to Governance
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…says Civil/Public Servants are engine rooms of govt.
Oyo State governor, 'Seyi Makinde, on Sunday, commended labour unions in the state for adding value to governance and improved social rights of the people.
The governor, while speaking at the 2022 May Day Ceremony, held at the Lekan Salami Sport Complex, Adamasingba, Ibadan, said that his administration recognises the sacrifices, forbearance, and contributions of all workers in the state in the face of the difficulties and challenges posed by the current economic reality in the country.
A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, indicated that Governor Makinde, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mrs.
Olubamiwo Adeosun, explained that despite the challenges, his government has kept faith with promises made during his inauguration as governor of the state.
He noted that workers and pensioners receive their salaries, pensions and allowances on/or before the 25th of every month, adding that a total sum of Four Hundred and Eighty Million Naira (N480,000,000.00) is being released as monthly payment of gratuities to Local Government, Primary School and State Retirees.
According to the governor, his administration believes that the Civil/Public Service is the engine room of any government, adding that the success of the government depends on the vibrancy of the Civil/Public Service that helps in the execution and implementation of policies.
He said: "It is with utmost joy that I welcome you all to this year 2022 workers' day celebration. We give glory to the Almighty God for the privilege of being alive to witness this celebration.
"This time last year, we all gathered at this same venue to celebrate the ever dynamic, dedicated and most illustrious workers of Oyo State, while we also committed the year to the hands of the Creator. It is, therefore, important that we return all glory to the giver of life for bringing us here today.
"I wish to commend the Labour Unions in Oyo State for adding value to governance, consistently defending, and improving the political, economic and the social rights of the people of Oyo State.
"I must also mention that my administration recognises the sacrifices, forbearance, and contribution of all the workers of Oyo State in the face of the difficulties and challenges posed by the present economic situation in the country.
"Such challenges are, however, not peculiar to Oyo State, it is a general phenomenon which has besieged the entire States of the Federation including the Federal Government.
"Inspite of these challenges, this administration has kept faith with promises made during our inauguration.
"It is no news that workers receive their salaries and allowances on/or before the 25th of every month. This is also being enjoyed by our Senior Citizens as their pensions are being paid on the same date.
"It is worthy of note that we release a total sum of Four Hundred and Eighty Million Naira (N480,000,00.00) monthly for payment of gratuities to Local Government, Primary School and State Retirees.
"On 28th May 2021, this administration delivered nine brand new buses for conveyance of workers to and from their places of work at no cost. In order to make it stress free for the Department administering the vehicles, we had to increase the amount of fuel given to these buses from 80 litres per week to 200 litres per week. It was our belief that this would enable the buses cover more routes and thereby convey more workers. On the same day, we commissioned the renovated Secretariat Staff Clinic with state-of-the-art facilities to help prevent cases of untimely death among workers."
Makinde, who maintained that his government would continue to listen to the yearning of the workforce and other sectors of the society, said the government has also decided to add two additional buses to the fleet of buses for workers.
"Let me also add that government has listened to some of the complaints coming from workers on the operation of the Pacesetter buses. We have, therefore decided to add two additional buses to join the Olodo and Egbeda routes.
"This is as a result of the need to effectively serve the huge population of workers on those routes. "Besides, the bus plying Ojoo route will now extend to Moniya, while the one on Challenge route will now get to New Garage.
"In the same vein, the bus plying BCGA route will now extend its operation to Apata."
He added that the administration believes in training and retraining of the workforce for optimum performance and efficiency, hence it has trained over 20,000 workers across the state in different areas specially, to support the Four (4) cardinal programmes of the government.
"This effort has been bearing fruits as many workers are seen to have been more dedicated and effective in the performance of their duties.
"In order to have more capable hands in some segments in the Civil/Public Service we recruited Six Hundred and Ninety-Two (692) Education Officers to man the affairs of such Schools under the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.
"May I state that the dwindling economy has not affected our promise of reducing unemployment as recruitment exercises are ongoing in the Oyo State Road Traffic Management Authority (OYRTMA) and Oyo State Primary Health Care Board where over 500 Officers are to be recruited in various capacities.
"Early in April 2022, we handed 100 Operational Vehicles to the Western Nigeria Security Oyo State, otherwise known as Amotekun Corps. This gesture is aimed at ensuring a more formidable security apparatus for the State, since it has been severally acknowledged that the first duty of government is the protection of lives and properties.
"We have also constructed and rehabilitated major roads in the State. Some of the road projects include the 9.7km Saki Township Road; 21km Airport-Ajia-New Ife Express Road with a spur to Amuloko; 45.3km Saki-Ogbooro-Igboho Road; 5.2km Gedu-Oroki-Sabo-Asipa Road among others.
"Recently, we commissioned Pacesetter Mass Transit Buses which were procured last year. Two world-class Bus Terminals, one at Ojoo and the other Challenge area of Ibadan have also been commissioned for use of public.
"Indeed, our commitment to the welfare of our people remain unshaken," he said.
The governor concluded that his government has played its part as a responsible government, calling on workers to show more dedication to duty and desist from all forms of misconduct."
Earlier, the state chairmen of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrades Kayode Martins, and Emmanuel Ogundiran, respectively, commended the Makinde administration for workers-friendly policies and programmes.
Martins urged that the governor should grant autonomy to the Local Government, the judiciary and others.
In his remark, Ogundiran noted that the theme for the 2022 Labour Day, "Labour Politics and the quest for good governance and development in Nigeria," is apt.
He explained that Makinde has devoted himself to repositioning Oyo State "to where it can realistically be called the Pacesetter."
He urged the labour unions in the state to continue to play their parts in moving the state and the country at large forward.
The event had in attendance traditional rulers, political office holders and members of the different labour unions in the state.
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Mpls Somali community reacts to sex-ring scandal
Authorities arrested 17 people in Minnesota connected to human trafficking in three states.
by Frank
After the shocking arrest of 17 of their peers Monday, the Somali community of Minnesota is struggling to grasp the bust of a human trafficking sex ring that spanned three states.
Federal and local law enforcement officials are continuing their investigation into a multi-state prostitution ring that involved members of the Minnesota Somali community. The investigation sheds light on the presence of gangs in the society.
Dahir Jabreel, executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center, said the Somali community is surprised and saddened by the news but is also angered by the slow response by authorities.
"People are trying really hard to make a living, to create self-employment," Jabreel said. "If we let this crime continue for a year, five years, ten years, then it becomes something that is widespread in the community, and then we start indicting people. ThatâÄôs not helpful.
"If we had taken steps earlier, then we could have saved a lot of girls and a lot of families from this victimization," he said.
A federal court Monday unsealed an indictment against 29 people ranging from 19 to 38 years old who authorities said were involved in trafficking of minors for sex, stealing cars, participating in credit card fraud and other charges in a 24-count indictment.
Authorities conducted raids in Minnesota and Tennessee on Monday, leading to the arrests of 26 people, including 17 in Minnesota. Three more people listed in the indictment are still at large, St. Paul police chief Tom Smith said Monday evening.
The Somali gangs in Minneapolis and St. Paul coerced four girls, including one as young as 12 years old, into engaging in sex acts with multiple people in three states, according to the indictment. The girls were all from Minnesota.
"Human traffickers abuse innocent people, undermine our public safety and often use their illicit proceeds to fund sophisticated criminal organizations," said John Morton, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The sex trafficking ring had been in operation since January 2000, according to the indictment. Three Minneapolis-based gangs âÄî the Somali Outlaws, the Somali Mafia and the Lady Outlaws âÄî were allegedly working together.
"We knew [sex trafficking] was happening in the Somali community," said Vednita Carter, founder of Breaking Free, a Minneapolis organization that helps women involved in prostitution. "ItâÄôs just a matter of time before the issue comes to focus in the community."
Of all the girls who have come for help through her organization, Somali girls are often the youngest, Carter said.
Carter points to an overall trend of younger girls being involved in prostitution. "IâÄôve never seen that happen before," she said.
"These girls are trying to find their way, to find out who they are," Carter said. "TheyâÄôre easy prey because they donâÄôt understand."
Many Somali youth travel to America either by themselves or with a single parent, Jabreel said. He pointed to the vulnerability young, low-income immigrants face when confronted with a proposal to participate in crimes for money or honor.
There are two extremes to follow for some Somali men, Jabreel said. One side is radicalism, as shown in the Somali men who traveled back to Somalia to fight in the countryâÄôs civil war. The opposite side is rebelling against their religion and family by participating in organized crime like the sex ring.
"They want to be part of the âÄòcool,âÄô" Jabreel said. "They are vulnerable themselves to join the gangs, especially because of their family backgrounds, their language barriers and the color of their skin."
Three of the 29 people arrested were women who participated in persuading young girls into sex trafficking, according to the indictment. One of the women, Hamdi Ali Osman, also known as "Boss Lady," is alleged to have offered one of the victims food and shelter for engaging in sex acts.
The girls most vulnerable to sex trafficking are runaways, Jabreel said. The first victim was found after police recognized her as a known runaway after she and several gang members were pulled over in Nashville, Tenn.
Jabreel believes the four girls are not the only victims of sex trafficking by these gangs.
For the Somali community, the issue of prostitution is taboo, just like in any other culture, he said. People are not comfortable getting help, so girls involved with sex trafficking have remained largely mute until now, he said.
Some members of the Somali community see the victims as the ones to blame, but this is a belief that will have to change to make any advances in the fight against sex trafficking and gangs, Jabreel said.
The next step for these girls is a lifelong recovery process, Carter said. Carter will work alongside Jabreel and the Somali Justice Advocacy Center to find the four girls and help lead them in the right direction.
Jabreel advocates better resources to educate the Somali community and to create a safety net for young adults who are influenced by gang related activities.
"I think this is a situation where communities of Minnesota should sympathize with this new community that is under assault in various ways," Jabreel said. "These are our parents, they are our friends, they work with you, and they need help."
âÄîThe Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Catalyst #2 (September 2000)
Royal Mail: Unofficial action gets results. Workplace organisation at Runcorn Delivery Office reaches a new height with a 24h wild cat strike.
Recognise This?! We look at new labour legislation introduced by New Labour, allowing 'Automatic' union recognition.
It's Official; poor means skint. The Acheson Report on Health Inequality from the Department for the Bleeding Obvious has new findings: apparently the poor have less money and live less well.
Problems at work No.1: We give advice about what you can do when there are health and safety issues in your workplace but the bosses keep ignoring them.
Fat Cats in sheep's clothing. Bosses at the Manufacturing, Science and Finance (MSF) union are spending a fortune covering up their mismanagement.
Plus short news from the UK and from around the world.
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Click here to download the issue as a PDF file. You can also get in touch with us to get paper copies : catalyst@solfed.org.uk.
Royal Mail: Unofficial action gets results
Over one hundred postmen and postwomen at Runcorn Delivery Office decided to celebrate Bastille Day in style and hold a 24-hour unofficial strike against working conditions.
Postal workers have now been promised a five day, forty hour week, but must find it themselves by increasing their workload. Deliveries have been over-loaded at Runcorn for years and repeated requests to management and the union have fallen on deaf ears. Even when proposals were put forward, management refused to implement them.
Eventually, with the introduction of the 'Fit To Deliver' programme, there was some hope that deliveries would be cut back to the standard of two and a half hours. This proved not to be the case when management decided to revise the indoor aspects of postal work without giving consideration to the actual deliveries. They then tried to bring in a five-day week for full-time staff, but excluded part-time staff from getting one. The workforce decided to stand together and vote out this divisive proposal. CWU members at Runcorn view the national union as just another layer of management who are looking after their own interests, and are fair game to be taken on in a fight. The vast majority of staff have opted out of paying into the political fund on the grounds that the Labour Party does not look after the interests of the working class. Disillusionment with 'politics' is further reflected in the fact that before the 1997 General Election, there were ten Labour Party members working at Runcorn, and none now. Union meetings held outside working hours are very well attended and, in the past, guest speakers have included Unison members who where suspended by Labour controlled Sefton Council. Over the years, there has been a growing feeling that, to gain any improvement in working conditions staff, must look to themselves and not to the union. The elected local representatives routinely refuse to sign any proposals without calling a meeting for staff to discuss the issues and then holding a vote.
On the day of the strike, only two scabs continued working as seventy plus staff stayed on picket duty for most of the morning. A further twenty turned up that night in case management tried to bring mail in. Management have now promised to review overloaded deliveries, look at the lack of catering facilities, which currently consist of an ancient chocolate machine and an unreliable coffee/tea machine, and investigate the lack of car parking facilities.
Staff have been working to rule since the middle of June. This involves not starting work before their official start time and breaking off deliveries at 09.30 to return to the office at their official break times. The mood is there to take on both the bosses and the union and it will be a sharp operator who gets anything past the staff at Runcorn Delivery Office. Mind you, this will never stop them trying - as Catalyst goes to press, there are signs the management are already trying to go back on the agreements which came out of the strike.
Do you work in the postal service or communications industry?
Do you want a fair deal for all workers?
To join a network of like-minded communication workers, or simply find out more, contact Communication Workers' Network; CWN-SF, PO Box 29, SWPDO, Manchester M15 5HW
Recognise This?! 'Automatic' union recognition is here at last
'Automatic' union recognition is here at last. But all the signs are it is far from automatic'.
The much-heralded legislation giving unions the right to force employers to negotiate over hours and conditions is now in force. But, as so often is the case with New Labour, it doesn't add up to much.
The legislation is modelled on US labour laws and has not prevented union membership plummeting to below 18% of the workforce. To make sure it stays that way, bosses in the UK have been learning from US 'experts' on how to confront workers to keep unions out of the workplace. UK legal firm Eversheds has been prompted to put on a nationwide roadshow tour, aimed at providing precisely this advice to employers. Meanwhile, PTI Labour Research, an anti-trade union US consultancy firm, have stated that they have held meetings with a number of legal firms interested in union busting work.
The legislation itself is complex and places a number of hurdles that must be overcome before union recognition can be granted. Firms that employ less than 21 workers are excluded from the act. Such small companies are often the most exploitative in terms of pay, conditions and safety. For larger firms, even when a clear majority of the workforce are union members, a ballot must take place. For automatic recognition, the result must be a claer majority in favour, with at least 40% of all those entitled to vote backing union recognition (-if political elections were undertaken on this basis, Labour would have failed at the last election, despite their huge 'majority'!) If the employers then refuse to accept automatic union recognition, then the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) can (and theoretically should) impose collective bargaining methods on them.
The government hopes that unions and employers will reach agreements prior to the involvement of the CAC. Even when the CAC is involved, time is allocated at each stage of the process to encourage early CAC-assisted agreement. In most cases, the likely outcome is that union leaders and management will reach a deal over the heads of the workers themselves, with very little worker involvement.
This need not happen. The act can be used as a cover for establishing the framework for effective future workplace organisation. The process of recruitment and the meeting allowed under the Act in the run-up to the ballot can be used to establish the democratic principles of a new type of union organisation - one run by the workers and not the union leaders. In order to do so, it is crucial that workers keep control of the recognition process, especially the size and the nature of the bargaining unit.
The Act gives considerable scope as to what form the bargaining unit can take. It has only to consist of a definable group, for example, it can consist of all hourly paid workers, or those in certain grades or departments. Workers should collectively restrict the bargaining unit to those who are interested in union organisation based on worker participation. Setting up for direct democracy at the start will prevent union organisation being made up of an apathetic paper membership in the future.
It's Official; poor means skint
A recent government report into poverty paints a depressing picture of inequality in Britain.
The Acheson Report on Health Inequality, set up by New Labour, found that working class people die younger, and suffer more from lung cancer, coronary heart disease, strokes, and suicides than the rich. They also suffer more house vandalism, and their children are less well-fed, despite the fact that their mothers often go without. Children are less likely to have any form of pre-school education, and have less access to child care. Not surprisingly, after this start in life, they do less well at school. The list goes on…
The report shed light on the cause of this poverty. Lack of money. While this is blindingly obvious to anyone reading this, it is not apparently obvious to politicians. They keep harping on about how throwing money at the problem will not solve it. New Labour's approach is that those in poverty should help themselves to their New Deals and whatever else is 'on offer'. The report recommended raising benefits by 25%, and a massive low-cost housing re-building programme, as a first step to reducing poverty. Ultimately, the report argued that poverty can only be overcome by reducing the gross and growing inequality that exists in British society.
The report is now, we presume, gathering dust somewhere. New Labour certainly have no plans to implement it.
In short: Floplast, casualisation, Scottish Power, cheap labour, women's strike, equal pay
Floplast bosses show their true colours
Management at Floplast in Bobbing, Kent responded to moves by the workforce to get recognition under the 50% rule by promptly sacking 6 people. Since the new legislation came into force, employers in Britain have been employing law firms to get advice on union busting and intimidating workers. If Floplast get away with it, other bosses will follow suit.
So, send support/solidarity and get action details;
Floplast Workers C/O GPMU Kent Branch, 155 London Rd, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 1PA
Telephone: 01795 423 993 Fax: 01795 471 791
Email: dannym@gpmukent.demon.co.uk
Also, let Floplast Operations manager Derek Bartrip know what you think - Fax him on 01795 431 188
Casualisation Kills
Simon Jones was killed in April 1998 as a casual worker at Shoreham dock. A student, he was forced to take the job after threats from the dole, and was decapitated within hours of starting work. He had received no training, nor had the employment agency who hired him checked that the job was safe - as required by health and safety law. The Simon Jones Memorial Campaign is fighting against such injustices happening again in the future. See www.simonjones.org.uk. Stickers, posters and a campaign video are available for a donation; cheques should be sent to Simon Jones Memorial Campaign, PO Box 2600, Brighton BN2 2DX
Power Threats
Scottish Power, Britain's biggest energy group, have withdrawn their threat to axe 450 jobs in the face of threatened strike action. Candle sales have plumetted. D. Rooney, AEEU energy officer commented on the bosses' climbdown: "This is a victory for common sense. We have avoided confrontation and now have an opportunity to work with the company in partnership". Trust the union to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Cheap labour
North Ayrshire Council has a website which proclaims us to "invest in North Ayrshire". Fairly standard stuff, until the bit which boasts that workers in the area get paid a full 12% less than the national average. The low wages are described as one of the key attractions of the area. Especially for businesses looking for cheap labour, apparently. Yes, you guessed, North Ayrshire is a solid Labour Council.
Women Strike Back
Women's groups in Spain are trying to get a book by one of Spain's foremost Muslim leaders banned. In "Women in Islam", by Mohamed Kemal Mostafa, instructions are given as to how men can beat their wives without leaving any external marks. Translations into Arabic and English are planned. Prepare for 8th March 2001 - strike for a world which values all women's work & all women's lives, an end to no pay, low pay & too much work. Called & co-ordinated by the International Wages for Housework Campaign, Crossroads Women's Centre, 230a Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2AB Website: http://womenstrike8m.server101.com
Unequal Opps
After 30 years of equal pay legislation, pay is anything but equal. The average gap between full-time male and female workers stands at 20%, while that between part-time workers is over 40%. It is the part-time, casual, manual women workers who have been left furthest behind. Worse, the statistics do not take into account the many areas of low-paid work types dominated by women workers. For example, cleaners are the lowest paid workers in Britain, and they are mainly women.
Short news - International
Direct actionists calling themselves the 'Dusty Desperadoes' destroyed five acres of genetically engineered canola at Monsanto facilities. Since November 1998, there have been at least 37 reported anti-genetic direct actions in North America.
The CCLC ('Concerned Citizens Labelling Collective') have been helpfully going into supermarkets and labelling up their GM foods. DIY: Their Website (http://www.voluntarylabelling.com) is full of labelling tips and PDF files with ready made labels to download.
On July 1st at 4am, 3,000 riot police stormed the Lotte Hotel, downtown Seoul, to drag out 1,000 striking workers. The Lotte Hotel Workers Union went on strike on June 9 demanding 17% wage increase, permanent contracts, 40 hour working week, and extension of retirement age. Police sprayed and fired tear gas into the rooms where striking workers were sleeping. They beat the workers with their truncheons causing serious injury to some 70 workers.
Six workers have been on strike since June. When the workers joined MANDATE (the union for shop and bar staff), management sacked two union workers for "poor performance" and suspended three others.
In August, yet another chapter of the monster trial against the group of 10 Czech anarchists in Zlin (to the East of the country) unfolded. They were arrested after a large group of Nazis attacked them. One of the defendants is David Srott, age 22, metalworker, dedicated anarchist militant from Otrokovice and FSA-IWA member. He is a regular target of police persecution, and friendly police-Nazi links are a regular problem for activists in the country.
Send donations for the legal fund to; CZ ABC Defence Fund,Federation of Social Anarchists, International Secretariat,PO BOX 5, 15006 Praha 56, Czech Republic. Tel: 420-0604-773440. Email; intersec@atlas.cz
On August 3rd, a national 24-hour strike to protest against austerity measures and record unemployment saw 700,000 workers walk off the job, with subsequent street battles with police, which brought riot gear and tanks to Colombia's capital, Bogota.
Problems at work No.1: Can the boss keep ignoring us?
I work in a textile factory that employs around 30 workers. We have complained to management about low temperatures, the lack of heating and poor ventilation but they ignore us and have threatened to victimise some workers. Some of us are members of a union, but there is no recognition. What are our options?
Whether you are in a recognised union or not, the first step for dealing with a health and safety issue is to establish what the problem is and how it is affecting workers. The best way to do this is for as many workers as possible to meet together to talk about the problems. The boss may immediately try and victimise any workers involved. Decide what, where and how to meet to get organised. Consider what contact you want with the union, if any.
In law, you are protected from dismissal for Health and Safety issues. But this can be difficult to prove in an industrial tribunal (and will realistically only get you financial compensation, and not get you your job back). So your only real protection is for workers to all stick together in what you agree to do. Also, document everything for use in a future tribunal, if necessary.
If workers lack confidence to get together, you could sort out some relevant health and safety information, with some suggestions about actions workers could take, and circulate a few copies anonymously (the Solidarity Federation's new pamphlet "Health and Safety at Work" has info to help with this - available from Catalyst for £1.50). This will probably get people talking. Once the first few people are interested, others may get a bit more confidence to come forward and speak up. And then you can start looking at what action you can take.
Health and safety information can also be documented through questionnaire, inspection, or "unofficial" documentation by means of a diary or record book, depending on your situation. You can get model questionnaires or suggested checklists for inspections from most unions. Your own union (I would guess you are in the Transport and General Workers Union) will have information on this, plus staff who can advise on health and safety issues. Or you can devise your own. Inspections don't have to be just going round ticking a clipboard - they could involve simply taking statements from workers about a particular problem, and how it is affecting them.
The next step is to find out what your boss should be doing about it. The Labour Research Department (78 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HF; tel: 020 7928 3649) is a vital source of information. They produce a monthly magazine and regular pamphlets on health and safety, etc. They also have a list of local resources/hazard centres up and down the country. Your local SolFed group can also help (contact Catalyst or write to SF, PO Box 1681, London N8 7DN).
It's workers that are the experts about what is unsafe or unhealthy, and we can collectively force the boss to implement health and safety improvements - by well-chosen direct action.
Write to catalyst for a full & frank answer to a problem at work. Or contact the ansaphone helpline for advice - 0161 232 7889
-Feel free to send your snippets, news and views to Catalyst
-Write to make contact with others in your type of work, and for details of doing local actions with like-minded people
Catalyst, SF, PO Box 29, SW PDO, Manchester M15 5HW
Short announcements: Justice for Mark Barnsley, Asda, IMF/WB in Prague
Justice for Mark Barnsley
Mark Barnsley is an activist, fitted up prisoner and victim of the state. He has refused to bow to the prison regime. As a result, he has had his radio smashed, been confined to his cell, and recently had the 4th in a series of punishment transfers this year. Contact the Justice for Mark Barnsley Campaign for details on how you can help with actions and solidarity.
Justice for Mark Barnsley - c/o 145-9 Cardigan Road, Leeds LS6 1LJ.
Mark's case on the web: www.openlyclassist.org.uk/
Write to Mark; Mark Barnsley - WA2897, HMP Parkhurst, Newport, Isle of Wight PO30 5NX
Shopping Asda
People are picketing supermarkets up & down the country, demanding 'cash not vouchers' for asylum seekers. Collections are also being held for toys and other 'luxury' goods which refugees are banned from buying under the voucher scheme.
More days of action against vouchers and in solidarity with refugees are planned. Contact Catalyst for details, or the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns; www.ncadc.demon.co.uk or phone 0171 701 5197 or CAGE; www.veggies.org.uk/cage or phone 07931 401 963 or; www.corporatewatch.org
September 24-26 – resisting the World Bank and IMF at their 55th annual meeting in Prague. For info. before and after – http://x21.org/s26 or http://go.to/s26
McDonalds - week of action
October 12th is McDonalds Workers' Day; October 16th is world anti-McDonalds day. London pickets details from
http://www.mcspotlight.org/ or NELSF, PO Box 1681, London N8 7LE. Tel. 0181 374 5027
Civil Rights Caravan
Solidarity with asylum seekers, migrants and victims of racism. 15-17th Sept.; Coventry, Birmingham, Leicester, Oxford: 22-24 Sept.; Dover, Margate, Brighton: 29-1st Oct.; Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle, Liverpool: 6-8th Oct; Exeter, Plymouth, Bristol: 14th Oct.; London - national demo, 1pm, Embankment. CARF, BM Box 8784 London WC1N 3XX Email: info@carf.demon.co.uk Tel: 020 7837 1450
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To subscribe and get a bimonthly newsletter, Bread and Roses, send six stamps with your name and address and any union affiliation details to: Box EMAB (ATU), 88 Abbey Street, Derby DE22 3SQ williamgodwin7@hotmail.com http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2522
Union bosses: Fat Cats in sheep's clothing
No luck on the lottery? Consider getting a job with the MSF (Manufacturing, Science and Finance union). Then all you have to do is blow the whistle on some shady goings on and get unfairly dismissed before walking off with a six figure payment.
When Marcia Solomon, a secretarial assistant, saw £35,000 worth of cheques made out to Roger Lyons (general secretary) and Nelson Mendes (head of finance) from a supposedly defunct bank account containing £160,000, she was sacked for gross misconduct. She settled out of court for £140,000. Her original allegations were investigated by assistant general secretary, John Chowcat but he was dismissed, also for gross misconduct, after uncovering a string of false expense claims made by Lyons. Chowcat was paid off with another £250,000 of MSF members' money.
Next to walk was north Thames regional officer, Howell John, who allegedly leaked information on Lyons' lavish lifestyle. To avoid their corrupt manoeuvrings being aired at another tribunal, Lyons & co. authorised another £200,000 pay off plus car. With around £750,000 already spent on covering Lyons' arse, there are calls for him to resign and for an independent forensic investigation of the union's books. Another tribunal is looming with the threat of more revelations. This time it involves Bryan Keegan, Lyons' former chauffeur, sacked after claiming £7,000 in back overtime payment. This indicates Lyons' true mentality - begrudging rightfully earned wages, yet spending over 100 times that amount in trying to cover his own tracks. For a union that claims to defend whistleblowers, the treatment of their own whistleblowers is disgraceful. Still, six-figure settlements soften the blow somewhat.
About Catalyst
Catalyst is the quarterly freesheet of the Solidarity Federation. If you want to get hold of a copy, get in touch with your nearest SolFed local, or email catalyst@solfed.org.uk. If you would like to distribute Catalyst, please get in touch with the Catalyst collective.
Other Catalyst issues
Catalyst #3 (February 2001)
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The prey starring in THE SINNER
In Communication, Griot, Networking, TV Shows on September 8, 2017 at 4:36 am
Imagine if the frog (the prey) became the aggressor…
Woop! Woop! When it comes to repentance — I'm no beginner
though a whole lot of repentance is needed on that new show, THE SINNER.
Have you seen it? It's wayward situations up-end the term 'off the rails.'
After watching this new series, it's building a case for the existence of hell.
Something has happened to the principle female played by Jessica Biel.
Her name is Cora in the script and her current residence is jail.
One minute Cora is having a fine day at the beach with fam and the next minute she's stabbing Franky in the jugular.
One day while with fam at the beach she just upped and killed a young doctor.
Her husband alone reacted in trying to stop her…
Those that know her say her usual character is so proper…
still amidst loud music on the beach Cora killed Franky, a young doctor.
The name of the series is THE SINNER, though it's not about church.
Cora once said, this was about a child that she lost via an early birth…
But that may be a lie.
She spoke with conviction but never minded the why.
That's the thing with Cora – whatever is wrong within her
Is embedded so deep, that it had to be fashioned by 'a sinner.'
Bill Pullman plays the detective whose interested in the WHY!
But I'm not so convinced the sinner is Cora – she's not the beginning of the fault
Perhaps t'was a guardian or something deep from her past; situational mind-fraud.
Good Lord, the title name is The Sinner and the network hosting it is USA.
I ran through the first 5 episodes via OnDemand though its air day is on Wednesday.
I think Cora's The PREY.
I wish I could tell you more, but I really cannot.
The series is so unpredictable – it could've been aired on FOX.
Cora is so confused and so am I.
I'm no sinner and can't stand a lie
yet so many lies are told in this script that it's hard to decipher the truth when necessary,
I'm Qui
Watching this twisted ruse that's Cora's truth – built on the sins of the past that she carries.
It's intriguing, human-faulty and scary.
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Is your favorite show on the chopping block
In Griot, News on May 14, 2012 at 12:29 pm
I don't know what favorite series shows you're into,
but a few are in trouble – so says ol' YAHOO:
airly safe shows like singing competitions and sitcoms were the biggest hits. Fantasy series – like ABC's "Once Upon a Time" and NBC's "Grimm" – fared surprisingly well. But shows set in the past – from the 1960s to the Mesozoic era – didn't succeed. Neither did high-concept science fiction like Fox's "Alcatraz" or NBC's "Awake." They were canceled last week, joining "Terra Nova" and "The Playboy Club."
The networks' most successful gambles this season were with existing shows, not new ones. CBS successfully revamped "Two and a Half Men" with Ashton Kutcher in place of Charlie Sheen. NBC ran "The Voice" in midseason against a CBS Monday night lineup, anchored by "Men," that had looked bulletproof in the fall. "The Voice" ended up briefly surpassing Fox's "American Idol" as the top-rated non-NFL programming on television, though "Idol" eventually retook the lead.
For the sake of full disclosure, an aside: We like risky shows. They keep TV fresh and interesting, and without some rolls of the dice, we would never have gotten "Seinfeld," "Modern Family" or "Lost." But for every risk that pays off, there are many more that make average viewers shake their heads and wonder what those network executives were thinking.
This was a season that seemed to depressingly reinforce stereotypes about the TV landscape: Networks remain the main home for mass-market reality shows, broad comedies and procedurals, while cable is the domain of novelistic period shows like "Mad Men" and "Boardwalk Empire" and hit genre series like "Game of Thrones" and "Walking Dead."
Whatever is happening doesn't seem to be good for TV: Overall, according to Nielsen, viewing was down 0.5 percent, or about 46 minutes per viewer per month in the fourth quarter of 2011 that included the start of the season. The decline came after years of consistent year-over-year growth.
Every show is a huge potential risk, and getting one on the air requires beating the odds again and again. But some shows are bigger gambles than others because of their setting, subject matter, complexity or flat-out weirdness. The flip side? Dark, complex, jarring shows are often the best ones, from "Lost" to "Breaking Bad."
Networks have already taken some gambles for the upcoming season — but none that seem as risky as the ones from this one.
NBC's midseason "Hannibal," about the cannibalistic "Silence of the Lambs" villain, would sound insane if not for the success of the Hannibal Lecter film franchise.
NBC's "The New Normal," from "Glee" veterans Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler, features an extended family consisting of a gay couple and the surrogate mother of their child. That might be more challenging to traditional notions of family if not for the fact that "Modern Family," which is tied for the top-rated sitcom on TV, hadn't featured a gay couple with an adopted daughter for the last three seasons. NBC winkingly says the show features a "post-modern family."
One of the most ambitious shows of the upcoming season is NBC's "Revolution," produced by "Lost" co-creator J.J. Abrams, which imagines a world in which all power suddenly disappears. Past "Lost"-influenced network shows in which a bizarre occurrence suddenly changes the world – from ABC's "Flash Forward" to NBC's "The Event" – haven't fared well. But NBC is giving the show a plum timeslot after "The Voice," its biggest hit.
Fox's upcoming series — including "The Following," a serial-killer drama led by Kevin Bacon, and a comedy starring "Office" vet Mindy Kaling, sound fairly straightforward — especially compared to last season's Fox slate.
CBS is rolling the dice with another '60s set show, "Vegas," about a rodeo cowboy-turned-sheriff. Star power should help the show's odds: It stars Dennis Quaid in the lead, and it also features Michael Chiklis, Carrie-Anne Moss, and "Terra Nova" vet Jason O'Mara. CBS's "Elementary," a Sherlock Holmes update set in modern-day New York, finds Jonny Lee Miller saying the magic word to a female Watson played by Lucy Liu.
ABC's edgier offerings, meanwhile, include "666 Park Avenue," about a young couple managing a historic apartment building that is home to dangerous supernatural happenings, and "Last Resort," about a nuclear submarine crew that goes rogue after getting a sketchy order to deploy their weapons.
Here's a look at some of the current season's swing-and-a-misses, God rest their souls, and what lessons can be learned from them:
The story of a family catapulted from the near future to the distance past died from a thousand cuts, administered by too many cooks. Too mixed metaphorical? Okay: It had a dozen executive producers, to go along with a massive budget, and tried to hedge by offering something for everyone. There was sci-fi. Family drama. Teenage romance. Action. A dystopian future. But in trying to please everyone – you know how this one goes, right? – it ended up pleasing very few. Fox canceled it amid low ratings. Still, good for Fox for giving it a shot. It's impressive whenever a top-rated network strays from what's safe, and this was the season's biggest gamble by far.
Some people will take it as a good sign that the fastest-canceled show of the season was also the one with the most T&A. "The Playboy Club" was beautiful to visit, and not just because of its cast. The set design was lovely, the music was hot. The idea to include musical numbers in every episode was a lot of fun, like when country stars used to drop in at the Boar's Nest on the Dukes of Hazzard. But "The Playboy Club," like "Terra Nova," didn't seem to have a soul. Like "Terra Nova," it was all over the place with subplots, none of them very original. You'll keep watching a good-looking but dumb show, the way you'll keep dating a dim bulb because of their physical attributes. But if they don't have a soul, you can't keep time with a person or a show.
ABC's "Pan Am," had lots of similarities with "The Playboy Club": Good looks, a swinging '60 setting, and, unfortunately, storylines that didn't really grab you by the throat. It was canceled last week.
This one didn't look like much of a gamble at all, at least to "Lost" fans: It starred endearing Lostie Jorge Garcia, was produced by Abrams and other "Lost" veterans, and was co-created by "Lost" writer Elizabeth Sarnoff. It was set partly on an island, for gosh sakes.
But since the rather open-ended conclusion of "Lost," viewers have been awfully careful about mythology-filled shows that may or may not go anywhere. "Alcatraz" had one big central mystery – how did the former prisoners disappear in 1963, and why do they keep reappearing in modern times? "Alcatraz" hedged its bets, doling out clues as it kept viewers occupied from episode to episode with an escaped criminal of the week. The half-and-half approach didn't engage enough of them.
The NBC drama was your humble correspondent's favorite network show of the year. But it took some of the same have-it-both-ways approach as "Alcatraz." The LAPD detective lead character was split between two realities – one in which his wife is alive and his son is dead, and another where the reverse his true. He also solved crimes in both worlds. The idea was that viewers would be entertained by the procedural within each episode, even as all the crimes – which may or may not be in the lead characters dreams – brought him closer to deciding which reality was real. If either one was real. Yes, it's complicated. And attention spans are short. We really don't know what "Awake" could have done differently. Its setup either fascinated or repelled viewers, and seems mostly to have repelled them. We'd like to wake up in a world where a show as strange as it "Awake" could survive on a major network.
Some of the forementioned shows are on fire and some of them lack,
50/50 on the call, even though my "MISSING" isn't coming back.
Rats!
Sure some shows are destined to give-in to the grim reaper,
however I'm ecstatic that ABC's SCANDAL is a keeper!
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LONE STAR Con Smarts
In Griot, Movies, TV Shows on September 28, 2010 at 8:50 am
Yes sir – a sensational stir and Ooo Wee, Good Lawd – Merci!
I am enjoying the show that LONE STAR is panning out to be.
The biggest blows are always returned to the one that dealt it.
Peep pop tower on this exciting new show & how they tell it:
"Lone Star" (FOX TV show), formerly known as "Midland," is a sophisticated and provocative drama about a con man who is juggling two wives and two very different lives. FOX's "Lone Star" TV show is set against the backdrop of greed and corruption in the Texas oil and power industries. From Chris Keyser and Amy Lippman ("Party of Five"), writer Kyle Killen and directed by Marc Webb ("(500) Days of Summer"), the compelling series stars newcomer James Wolk as Robert Allen, a charismatic and brilliant schemer who has entangled himself in a deep, complex web from which he can't break free. In FOX's "Lone Star" TV series, he's caught between two very different women.
The "Lone Star" cast also includes Adrianne Palicki ("Friday Night Lights") as Cat, Eloise Mumford ("Crash") as Lindsay, Jon Voight as Clint, Mark Deklin as Trammell, ("The Ex List"), David Keith ("The Class") as John Allen, Hannah Leigh Dworkin ("The Suite Life of Zack & Cody") as Grace, and Bryce Johnson ("Doctor Strange") as Drew.
The "Lone Star" TV show is produced by 20th Century Fox Television. "Lone Star" (FOX TV show) was created by Kyle Killen. The executive produces of FOX's "Lone Star" TV series are Kyle Killen, Amy Lippman, Chris Keyser, Chris Weitz, Kerry Kohansky Roberts and Paul Weitz. Marc Webb and Bill Gierhart directed the pilot for FOX's "Lone Star" TV series.
..and to think the writer & creator [Kyle Killen] is a literal popular unknown,
whose recent writes can't seem to go wrong. He's quite telling of "The Lone".
It's titaliting, tasty, provactive, revealing and thrilling,
And a little Texas dirt, can sometimes be quite healing
That is of course if "the rush" — is something you're into feeling…
LONE STAR brodcasts Monday nights @ 9/8c
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Giddy about GLEE
In Griot, Music, TV Shows on September 15, 2010 at 10:25 am
So NERDS are on the rise. Praise God and YIPPEE!!!
My AP Academic kid is stuck on FOX's show of "GLEE".
Are you watching? It's certainly more than an exhibition of thespian/musical nerds. The students that attend the sitcom high school are extremely talented. They're more like BROADWAY actors in training. Awesome! Let's meet a few of the stars:
Mercedes Jones [played by Amber Riley] is "diva-in-training who refuses to sing back-up", with a "flair for fashion".[Ep.37] In the pilot episode Mercedes auditions for the glee club by performing "Respect" by Aretha Franklin.[Ep.34] Due to Cheerios scheming, Mercedes develops a small crush on Kurt, unaware that he is gay. She is hurt when he rejects her, but Mercedes quickly recovers and she is supportive when he confides his sexuality. After this, the two become especially close friends.[Ep.35] Her father is a dentist.[Ep.38] In The Rhodes Not Taken, when April Rhodes is trying to get the other Glee club members on her side, she teaches Mercedes and Tina how to shoplift, later Mercedes goes to Mr. Schuester with new clothes and accessories saying that they love April.[Ep.22] Dismayed at never receiving solo songs, Mercedes joins the Cheerios along with Kurt.[Ep.28] She briefly dates Puck, but ultimately breaks up with him and quits the cheerleading squad, afraid of turning into someone she does not want to be.
Kurt Hummel [played by Chris Colfer] is a flamboyant singer who is bullied by the football team. In the pilot episode, Kurt auditions for the glee club by performing Mr. Cellophane from the musical Chicago.[Ep.34] Kurt comes out as gay to Mercedes in the episode "Acafellas",[Ep.35] and to his father in the following episode. Kurt has a crush on Finn, and hopes if Finn breaks up with Quinn, he will turn to Kurt for comfort.[Ep.32] He is aware that Rachel also has feelings for Finn, and attempts to sabotage her chances with him by giving her a bad makeover.
Finn Hudson [played by Cory Monteith] is the star quarterback of the school's football team who risks alienation by his friends to join the Glee Club. Finn "isn't a dumb jock", but instead "walks a fine line between following his dreams and balancing what other people expect of him."[Ep.8] He is dating cheerleader Quinn (whose Prego), and is conflicted by his growing feelings for Rachel.[Ep.14] Finn's mother then allows Quinn to move in with them.[Ep.32] Finn finds out that Quinn's baby is Puck's after Rachel tells him…
Quinn Fabray [played by Dianna Agron] is introduced as Finn's girlfriend, head of the cheerleading squad and president of the celibacy club.[Ep.27] She is described as Rachel's enemy, and "terrible, the meanest girl".[Ep.30] She reveals to Finn that she is pregnant and tells him that the baby is his despite the fact the real father is his best friend Puck.Finn learns from Rachel that Puck is the father of Quinn's baby. He breaks up with Quinn…
Rachel Berry [played by Lea Michele] is a "strong, driven" member of the glee club, who is misunderstood by her peers.[Ep.20] Rachel is "Not only is she a singer, but she has so much heart — precisely what we need on TV."[Ep.8] Rachel has a brief relationship with Puck, but ultimately breaks up with him over her feelings for Finn.[Ep.23] She later dates Jesse St. James, the lead singer of rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline, who ultimately betrays her in favor of his club.[Ep.24] Rachel discovers that Vocal Adrenaline coach Shelby Corcoran is her birth mother, but the two fail to forge a relationship.[Ep.25] At the end of season one, she and Finn reconcile and he tells her that he loves her.[Ep.26]
This show is about as riveting as I remember Melrose Place being when I was a teen.
However using pages from current youth phases – totally personalizes the scene.
I would have compared it to the historical teen show: 90210
But the writing, the cast and I never made a connective flow.
Glee is about adolescents channeling their energies positively through their gifts,
Digging Glee because growing up is still rough – Positive reflections yield positive lifts.
It's not a conservative show, or a show for the faint at heart
But it is for honest intellectuals who love seeing real life in reflective art.
Next week the NEW SEASON starts:
Tuesday – 9/21 @ 8/7c
I'm fast becoming a Gleek [..ie a Glee Geek].
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Whispering Ghosts withold No Secrets
In TV Shows on April 7, 2010 at 12:07 am
Yep! I'm a fan of "The Ghost Whisperer" starring Jennifer Love Hewitt as Melinda Gordon. Recent reports cite that she and her former co-star/boyfriend Jamie Kennedy have split up. The 30 year old actress from Waco, TX is once again single and it's not entirely a bad look for her. Considering Jennifers recent quotes about "being cheated on alot", I'd say perhaps the recent split could be a blessing indisguise.
The dead are talking…and she is listening. Do you watch the show? Have you ever watched an episode? I suppose it's for SYFY types like myself who believe in the whole "life after death" thing. Me? I'm not psychic, but I am quite sensitive. My 5 physical senses work pretty good, but my sixth senses are what really guides me alot of the time. I think I could easily classify myself as being "intuitively STRONG". How about you? Have you ever seen a ghost? How about an Angel? Have you ever spoken to either? Perhaps to answer favorably to either of the latter questions would classify you as "a loon" to your peers — maybe "slightly off", therefore you banish the thought that your intution could be anything other than "a hunch" or "a coincidence". Either way — I always give first credit to GOD for all of my intuitive interventions. I don't believe in coincidences, and I always listen to my gut. Are you listening?
The Ghost Whisperer series is well into it's 5th season and I don't see any reason to stop it anytime soon. I've mentioned before that "the afterlife" must be a pretty hot topic to many because show's like this one – just won't go away. CBS knows a money maker when they see one, and well…. 104 episodes aired (and counting) would definitely classify as "a success" by any shows standards. Right? I didn't even know Jen was from TX until today — what a refreshing credit to the Lone Star State. Jennifer has an awesome career and stars in an awesome show. I must say I liked it alot better when Aisha Tyler was on it, but I think she traded her ghostly gig for more freedom. Since then she's gone on to do several shows including her current animation role on FX's "ARCHER".
I've been a fan of Aisha Tyler for years, especially during her short stint on FOX's 24. She was honing the helms of CTU until it was discovered that Aisha's character [Marianne Taylor] was a double agent & well….the writers of the show had to "put her down". 24 is so unpredictable. That's why we love it. The roster is chock full of dead characters…just like The Ghost Whisperer. Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) knocks 'em off and Melinda Gordon listens to them afterwards. Perhaps these two could "hook up". lol! What do you think?
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Fixing Washington's broken mental health system
By Rep. Jay Rodne
Washington state faces a major challenge in appropriately and effectively addressing the needs of those with mental illness. Diagnosis and treatment can be complex, often involving multiple parties and sometimes including the legal system, law enforcement and the corrections system. It is an issue not only affecting an individual's health and well-being, but the safety and well-being of others. It is also an issue that transcends politics; this is a matter of fairness and understanding.
The state Supreme Court was clear when it issued a decision on August 7, 2014, calling attention to the improper "boarding" of the mentally ill in hospitals and not providing them appropriate treatment. Luckily the Legislature and governor answered the call of the court and passed an early action supplemental budget this legislative session, increasing mental health treatment capacities.
Notwithstanding this great first step, we're still far from fully addressing our broken mental health system. Individuals in our communities are plagued with mental illness and struggle daily, and as a result of the status quo, some of these individuals have threatened the lives of others and themselves. At times their mental health episodes end in the tragic loss of innocent lives.
During my service as the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, multiple mental-health-related bills have been considered by the body. The last few years, I've worked with my colleagues in the House and Senate to improve treatment standards and expand family access to the court system.
So far this legislative session, the House has been successful in unanimously passing legislation to enable families of mentally ill individuals who pose a serious threat to themselves or others to petition the courts for involuntary commitment. It's called "Joel's Law," named after Joel Reuter.
Joel, a successful software engineer living in Seattle, struggled with bipolar disorder and was fatally shot by police in 2013, just weeks after being discharged from the hospital. Joel's parents attempted multiple times to have him involuntarily committed. When they were denied and asked what would make their son meet the required conditions, the answer they received was "when he has a loaded gun in his hand with his finger on the trigger," then he would meet the criteria.
I cosponsored this bill last year (House Bill 2725), and it unanimously passed the House but stalled in the Senate. I'm proud the House made a serious statement about addressing problems within the mental health system this session by having this year's bill, House Bill 1258, be one of the first to pass off the floor and make its way to the Senate.
I'm committed to working with my colleagues, and the bill's prime sponsor, to ensure it is delivered to the governor's desk by the end of session, and hopefully have it signed and enacted into law.
House Bill 1451 is another bill I sponsored this session, which would identify "persistent or acute disability" as an additional standard for a person to be committed for involuntary mental health treatment. While the legislation had bipartisan backing, it unfortunately will not be progressing this session.
No one should have to endure the psychological and emotional distress of enduring a mental illness without specialized care, treatment and understanding. The fact the current law does not appropriately account for the emotional struggles it inflicts on the mentally ill and families is unjust and unacceptable.
Rep. Jay Rodne, R-Snoqualmie, represents the 5th Legislative District in King County. He is the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee and serves on the House Transportation and Health Care and Wellness committees.
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He has also climbed five of the seven summits (including a solo ascent of Aconcagua) and more than half of the 67 Alpine 4,000m Peaks of Europe including the Matterhorn, Eiger and approx 15 ascents of Mont Blanc. He is leading an Everest summit expedition in spring 2016.
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Three new TV spots for The Wolfman have been released to give us a little more footage than we've seen before. The Wolfman has been years in the making but is finally being released by Universal Pictures on the 12th February. It's directed by Joe Johnston and stars Benicio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving.
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Universal Studios resurrects the classic lycanthrope with this tale of an American who experiences an unsettling transformation after returning to his ancestral home in Victorian-era Great Britain and being attacked by a rampaging werewolf. His brother having recently vanished without a trace, haunted nobleman Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) returns to his family estate to investigate. What he discovers upon reuniting with his estranged father (Anthony Hopkins), however, is a destiny far darker than his blackest nightmares. As a young boy, the untimely death of his mother caused Talbot to grow up before his time. Though Talbot would attempt to bury his pain in the past by leaving the quiet Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor behind, the past returns with a vengeance when his brother's fiancée, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), convinces him to return home and aid the search for his missing brother.
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Q: How to add text to a game in Java I have been working on a snake game, but an improvement I wanted to make was adding text to the game, giving instructions and keeping track of points. I messed around with JPanel and a few other things that all open a new, mini window that displays the text rather than printing it on the primary window
EDIT:
Thanks to several helpful people, I understand the correct use, but when I use it while attempting to change the color, it changes the color of the background as well. I was under the assumption this is because it's in the same class as the background, so when I put g.setColor under the background's color, it changed it.
I tried making a new object using paintComponent() while the background was in paint(), and the text didn't show up.
Any advice?
Here is the main java file:
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Random;

public class Gamepanel extends JPanel implements Runnable, KeyListener {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    public static final int WIDTH = 500, HEIGHT = 500; //window size

    private Thread thread;

    private boolean running; //allows the game to be started/stopped

    private boolean right = true, left = false, up = false, down = false; //setting default movement

    private BodyPart b;
    private ArrayList<BodyPart> snake;

    private Food food;
    private ArrayList<Food> foods;

    private Random r; //creating random integer for food spawn

    private int xCoor = 10, yCoor = 10, size = 5; //setting location and coordinate size, along with snake length
    private int ticks = 0;

    private int points = 0;

    public Gamepanel() {

        setFocusable(true);

        setPreferredSize(new Dimension(WIDTH, HEIGHT)); //window size
        addKeyListener(this); //allows key input from user

        snake = new ArrayList <BodyPart>();
        foods = new ArrayList <Food>();

        r = new Random(); //random integer

    }

    public void start() {
        running = true; //allows the game to start
        thread = new Thread(this);
        thread.start();

    }
    public void stop() {
        running = false; //stops the game from running
        try {
            thread.join();
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
    public void tick() {
        if(snake.size() == 0) { //sets location
            b = new BodyPart(xCoor, yCoor, 10);
            snake.add(b);
        }
        ticks++; //constant tick increase
        if(ticks > 750000) { //sets speed (higher = slower)
            if(right) xCoor ++;
            if(left) xCoor --;
            if(up) yCoor --;
            if(down) yCoor ++;

            ticks = 0;

            b = new BodyPart(xCoor, yCoor, 10);
            snake.add(b);

            if(snake.size() > size) {
                snake.remove(0); //removes earliest value in snake size
            }
        }
        if(foods.size() == 0) { //sets food in window range(multiplies by 10)
            int xCoor = r.nextInt(48);
            int yCoor = r.nextInt(48);

            points++;

            food = new Food(xCoor, yCoor, 10);
            foods.add(food);
        }

        for (int i = 0 ; i < foods.size(); i++) { //spawns new food when old food is eaten
            if(xCoor == foods.get(i).getxCoor() && yCoor == foods.get(i).getyCoor()) {
                size ++;
                foods.remove(i);
                i++;
            }
        }
        //player body collision
        for(int i = 0 ; i < snake.size(); i++) {
            if(xCoor == snake.get(i).getxCoor() && yCoor == snake.get(i).getyCoor()) {
                if(i != snake.size() - 1) {
                    System.out.print("Game Over! " + "Points: " + points);
                    stop();
                }
            }
        }
        //border collision
        if(xCoor < 0 || xCoor > 49 || yCoor < 0 || yCoor > 49) {
            System.out.println("Game Over! " + "Points: " + points);
            stop();
        }

    }
    public void paint(Graphics g) { //background color/size setter

        g.clearRect(0, 0, WIDTH, HEIGHT);

        g.setColor(Color.BLACK); //background color
        g.fillRect(0, 0, WIDTH, HEIGHT);

        for(int i = 0; i < WIDTH/10 ; i++) {
            g.drawLine(i * 10, 0, i * 10, HEIGHT);
        }
        for(int i = 0; i < HEIGHT/10 ; i++) {
            g.drawLine(0, i * 10, HEIGHT, i * 10);
        }
        for(int i = 0 ; i < snake.size(); i++) {
            snake.get(i).draw(g);
        }

        for(int i = 0 ; i < foods.size(); i++) {
            foods.get(i).draw(g);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        while(running) {
            tick(); //runs ticks while running is true
            repaint();
        }

    }

    @Override
    public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
        int key = e.getKeyCode();
        if(key == KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT && !left) { //right key = right movement
            right = true;
            up = false;
            down = false;
        }

        if(key == KeyEvent.VK_LEFT && !right) { //left key = left movement
            left = true;
            up = false;
            down = false;
        }

        if(key == KeyEvent.VK_UP && !down) { //up key = up movement
            up = true;
            right = false;
            left = false;

        }

        if(key == KeyEvent.VK_DOWN && !up) { //down key = down movement
            down = true;
            right = false;
            left = false;

        }

        if(key == KeyEvent.VK_SPACE) {
            snake.clear();
            start();
            size = 5;
            points = 0;
            xCoor = 10;
            yCoor = 10;

        }

    }

    @Override
    public void keyReleased(KeyEvent arg0) {
    }

    @Override
    public void keyTyped(KeyEvent arg0) {
    }
}

A: Did you try this ?
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
    super.paintComponent(g);
    Font font = new Font("Verdana", Font.BOLD, 14);
    g.setFont(font);
    g.setColor(Color.black);
    g.drawString("instructions", 75, 75);
}

as noted by @Hovercraft maybe you should be overriding the paintComponent() method instead of paint()

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by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brindled cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches' wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him.
"Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Public Domain. (buy now)
Today is the birthday of the city of Dublin, founded in 988. The area had been occupied, more or less, since before the Roman invasion of Britain, and it appeared in Ptolemy's Guide to Geography in the year 140, but the first verifiable settlement came with the Vikings in about 831. They called it "Dyflin," which came in turn from the Irish Dubh Linn, which means "black pool." The reason it's considered to be founded in 988 rather than 831 is because that's the year the Irish king Máel Sechnaill reclaimed the city for Ireland. It's also the year he first forced people to pay him taxes, so Dublin has belonged to the Irish ever since, bought and paid for.
Dublin's contribution to literature alone has been remarkable. Ireland was one of the first countries to produce writing in the vernacular, and it's long had a tradition as a nation of scholars. A partial list of writers who are from Dublin, or who adopted it as their home, includes Jonathan Swift, Francis Bacon, Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, Bram Stoker, Patrick Kavanagh, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, Sean O'Casey, Brendan Behan, John Millington Synge, and Seamus Heaney.
"When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence." — Brendan Behan
"When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin." — J.P. Donleavy
Today is the birthday of short-story writer Alice Munro (books by this author), born Alice Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario (1931). She's the author of many collections of short stories, including Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974), The Moons of Jupiter(1982), and Open Secrets (1994). She studied journalism on scholarship at the University of Western Ontario and then struggled to support herself as a writer, but she finally gave up and became a housewife in the 1950s. She had four children, and stayed home to take care of them, but while they were napping, she began to read widely — many of the most important books of the 20th century. And she began to write, though she found it very difficult. She said: "I went through about a year … when I couldn't finish a sentence. It was a time of terrible depression, about what I could do measured against what I wanted to do." Then, in 1959, her mother died, and Munro suddenly found that she was able to explore her personal life in her fiction in ways she'd never been able to do before. Nine years later she published her first book of stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968).
Munro often writes about ordinary people in small-town Ontario, where she grew up. She said, "People's lives, in [my home town] as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable — deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum."
She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013 for her work as "master of the contemporary short story" and the 2009 Man Booker International Prize recognizing her lifetime body of work.
It's the birthday of French novelist Marcel Proust (books by this author), born in Auteuil (1871). He published a collection of short stories called Pleasures and Days in 1896, and then worked for four years on an autobiographical novel that he never published. When his parents both died within a few years of each other, Proust inherited enough money to live securely while he began the work for which he is remembered: his seven-volume work, Remembrance of Things Past, whose title is also sometimes translated as In Search of Lost Time (1913–27).
The most famous scene in the book occurs early on, when the narrator dips a bit of a madeleine in some tea and experiences a profound sense-memory of his childhood. That really happened to Proust, although in his case it was a humble rusk — a dry biscuit — that triggered a childhood memory.
It's the birthday of British writer Edmund Clerihew Bentley (books by this author), born in London, England (1875). He first achieved fame for his 1913 mystery novel, Trent's Last Case, which he wrote as a reaction against the prevailing conventions of detective fiction. Unlike the infallible Sherlock Holmes, Bentley's detective, Philip Trent, bungles his cases and comes up with ingenious solutions that turn out to be completely wrong. Bentley also became known as the inventor of a new form of verse, the "clerihew," which he introduced in his 1905 book, Biography for Beginners. A clerihew is made up of two rhyming couplets, the first rhyme provided by the name of a famous person. For example:
George the Third
Ought never to have occurred.
One can only wonder
At so grotesque a blunder.
And it's the birthday of John Calvin (books by this author), born in Noyon, Picardy, France (1509). He experienced a religious epiphany sometime between 1528 and 1533, in his early 20s, when, he said, "God subdued my soul to docility by a sudden conversion." Calvin embraced Protestantism at a time when that was a dangerous thing to do; in 1534, two dozen Protestants were burned at as heretics in France. He took up a nomadic lifestyle for the next several years, traveling throughout France, Italy, and Switzerland, finally settling in Geneva.
In 1536, Calvin published Institutes of the Christian Religion; it was intended for a general readership and laid out the foundations which came to be known as Calvinism, or five principles that spell out the word TULIP:
Total depravity: all people are born sinful.
Unconditional election: God has already chosen those people who will be saved.
Limited atonement: Jesus died to atone for the sins of the elect only.
Irresistible grace: If you are among the elect, you will inevitably repent and become Christian.
Perseverance of the saints: You can never lose your salvation.
Word got around, and he made a name for himself among religious reformers; when he passed through Geneva, the pastor of the city prevailed on him to stay around awhile and help with the new church. William Farel, the pastor, wouldn't take "no" for an answer, and even swore a curse on Calvin if he refused. Calvin stayed for a year and a half, and although Geneva was ripe for religious reform, there was still conflict between Calvin, who wanted to install a theocracy, and those who wanted less drastic reform. Calvin was driven out of the city and went to Strasbourg. He returned three years later, and he spent the rest of his life in Geneva. He wasn't popular with everyone — some people set their dogs on him, or sent him death threats, or disrupted his sermons — but he persisted in spite of failing health, saying, "What! Would you have the Lord find me idle when He comes?"


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In addition to this, in the centre of the building is an open tiered learning area, where the flexibility of the space allows both large groups to assemble or small groups to work together on projects on each tier. The open tiered learning area allows strong connections between the two levels, with the mezzanine of the second level featuring open views into the level below. This not only provides openness throughout the building to maintain project collaboration, but also provides passive supervision of spaces and student safety.
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